“Super organized and hands-on project support“
Background
Can’t Wait to Learn provides a quality evidence-based solution to close the education gap for millions of children affected by conflict. This self-paced digital education programme covering grade 1-3, offers children the opportunity to (continue to) learn to read, write and count, through educational games that are specifically created for and with these young children. Can’t Wait to Learn works together with Ministries of Education around the world to ensure that the learning objectives are in line with their national curricula, most recently for children in and outside of Ukraine.
Your Challenge
As Project Officer you are responsible for ensuring quality organizational and administrative support to the CWtL Ukraine Response Team (80%) & the Global CWtL Team (20%).
Your Responsibilities
Providing project support
- Carry out a variety of subject-matter work within the project team to help coordinate, plan, prepare, and carry out tasks in line with the programme plans.
- Help the programme team to prepare a work plan, establish a budget and write periodic and other reports in line with organisational requirements.
- Support projects and sub-projects by compiling information for planning, monitoring and reporting purposes.
- Prepare subject matter for meetings, keep minutes if necessary and tracks arrangements to ensure that they are fulfilled.
- Edit documents and provide basic translation support, where possible.
Operational support
- Coordinate and support procurement and recruitment processes in a timely manner, in line with internal and donor requirements.
- Support financial administration of the programme.
- Advise on, assist with and carry out matters relating to setting up the project’s accounts and records for new projects.
- Maintain programme related filing and carry out administration & filing for grant management processes.
Maintaining contacts and providing administrative and organisational support to internal and external stakeholders
- Serve as a point of contact for internal and external stakeholders on matters concerning the work on the project.
- Handle some or all the communications to stakeholders relating to project progress.
- Follow up on logistical matters relating to trainings, meetings and visits of partners or donors.
- Participate in various internal and external meetings and consultations.
Improving services
- Identify opportunities to improve the standard of professionalism.
- Share learnings and experiences with the rest of the organisation.
Your Profile
- Previous work experience in a busy administrative / project type role.
- Understanding of and some previous experience of project-based working methods.
- Ability to maintain effective communication lines within a project.
- Flexibility to be able to multitask and remain effective in a busy & changeable environment.
- Excellent planning and organising skills.
- Natural problem solver with a keen eye for detail & accuracy.
- Enthusiastic by nature with a hands-on approach.
- Fluency in English is required. Fluency in Ukrainian, Romanian, or Russian is desirable.
Location
This role is based at our offices in Amsterdam, Netherlands (successful candidate needs to be eligible to work in the Netherlands).
Our Offer
- Salary range from €2, 793 – €3, 473 gross per month, based on 40 hours per week (the exact step determined by the years of your relevant working experience)
- 26 vacation days on full time basis, plus 3 additional fixed free days per annum (based on 40 hours work week)
- Pension scheme fully paid by War Child
- Commuter & working from home allowances
- Possibility to follow training and/or courses where relevant
- Pleasant working conditions, good atmosphere, great colleagues and of course the meaningful purpose to our work!
The Organisation
War Child is a young and dynamic organisation. We try to keep an informal ambiance within our office, with a lot of room for creativity, inspiration and self-initiative from employees. We practice what we preach: dynamic, innovative, integrity focused and a drive to reach the highest possible results against the lowest possible costs. War Child offers a challenging job in an inspiring workplace.
Contract
The contract term is anticipated to be initially until end March 2024 with the possibility to extend.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates are invited to apply before 23 July 2023. Make sure to upload your English CV (maximum of two pages) and cover letter by using the following hyperlink:
https://www.warchild.nl/werken-voor-kinderen/project-officer-cant-wait-to-learn-cwtl/
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
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War Child is an international organisation, and we are committed to be a diverse and inclusive employer, placing human and child rights at the centre of our existence and work. We hire our new colleagues based on their talents, competences and shared values; we do not distinguish them based on their age, gender and gender identity, race, color, ethnicity, religion, culture, sexual orientation, disability etc.
The safety of children and youth is a paramount and essential to War Child’s work. War Child has a zero tolerance policy towards any form of abuse. To prevent placing children and youth at any risk this subject is addressed in our recruitment and selection procedures. Moreover, the accepted candidates will be required to state their commitment/ intent to be aware, consider and adhere to the minimum standards applicable in development and humanitarian settings, such as humanitarian values and principles, Sphere Humanitarian Charter, Standards in the Humanitarian Standards Partnership, Core Humanitarian Standard, International Humanitarian Law, Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Disaster Relief and IASC Six Core Principles Relating to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse.
Disclaimer
• Only applications received via our website are processed.
• If we appoint a suitable candidate before the given closing date, we reserve the right to remove the vacancy from our website before that date. In such a case, any responses received after that time are not processed.
• It could be that during our selection process the closing date for the vacancy is extended. If so, and you have not yet heard from us, your application will remain active.
